Related Projects
CORENET (COnstruction and Real Estate NETwork)
CORENET is driven by the Singaporean Building and Construction Authority in collaboration with other public and private organisations. It is a major IT initiative undertaken by the Singapore Ministry of National Development to re-engineer the business processes of the construction industry to integrate the four major processes of a building project life cycle, supported by key infrastructures:
- Collaorative Design Systems
- Procurement Systems
- Construction Systems
- Facility Management Systems
Objective of CORENET is to re-engineer the business processes of the construction industry to achieve a quantum leap in turnaround time, productivity and quality.
Currently, the effort is focused at developing a set of infrastructure and industry projects in order to :
- Provide Information Services to allow businesses to speed up business planning and decision making processes;
- Provide Government to Business infrastructure to facilitate electronic building plans submission ( http://www.corenet.gov.sg/integrated_submission/esub/esub.html), checking and approval processes (http://www.corenet.gov.sg/integrated_submission/iss/integrated_plan.html;)
- Provide a set of standards to improve business communications (http://www.itsc.org.sg/tc/5th_term_compo/citc.html;)
- Provide a series of promotions and training to create awareness and encourage adoption (https://www.bca.gov.sg/citi/.)
IFC-mBomb
Launched in September 2002, the project has brought together representatives of the construction and IT industries in a programme to develop an information process framework (the 'scenario'), test cases and complex software interfaces. The project aims at devising a method that will allow a seamless flow of information to pass from design and construction to operation and maintenance - and then decommissioning and demolition if need be.
The project ended in 2004, and its website is now a valuable source of information for IFC related projects.
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